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- How Aliko Dangote’s $1 billion deal seeks to unlock Zimbabwe’s economic potential
- Tanzania’s Amsons Group grows footprint in East Africa’s cement industry
- Rwanda and Tanzania to pilot EAC’s low-cost, cross-border money transfer system
- Broken Promises by Wealthy Nations: Africa Needs to Finance its Energy Addition then Transition
- Africa’s bluetech financing: How investor education and tailored investments could unlock capital
- How Agtech, AI, and Fintech can transform Africa’s food systems
- Safaricom posts 52.1% jump in half-year net earnings to $331M, Ethiopia loss narrows
- African mergers and acquisitions set to rise in 2026 as licensing rounds open new opportunities
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- In $1 billion bold commitment, Aliko Dangote eyes cement production, energy generation, fertilizer plant, and a massive 2,000-km oil petroleum pipeline serving Zimbabwe from Namibia shores.
- Dangote’s investment revives a stalled 2015 cement project, abandoned amid bureaucratic hurdles under the late Robert Mugabe, and aligns with Zimbabwe’s Vision 2030 to become an upper-middle-income economy.
- By addressing energy, materials, and logistics bottlenecks, the investment has potential to create 10,000 jobs, and $3 billion in economic value.
On November 12, 2025, Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, sealed a landmark $1 billion investment agreement with Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa. This deal, spanning cement production, power generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and a sprawling 2,000-kilometer petroleum pipeline from Namibia, marks a pivotal moment for Zimbabwe’s economic resurgence.
Coming just hours before Dangote’s flight to Lusaka for talks with Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema on coal-based energy solutions, the agreement underscores a broader regional ambition: harnessing Africa’s …
- African mergers and acquisitions are set to drive investor-friendly licensing rounds, creating new opportunities for both indigenous and international players in the oil and gas industry, the African Energy Chamber’s 2026 Outlook states.
- In Africa, the M&A landscape is evolving rapidly. Global independent oil companies are divesting mature assets, creating space for local and regional players to expand.
- Globally, upstream M&A totaled $51 billion between January and June 2025, marking a decline from the period between July and December 2024.
Activity across the African mergers and acquisition in the oil and gas upstream sector is set for a dynamic phase in 2026 as emerging trends continue to reshape the continent’s energy industry, which is fast evolving into a new frontier for investors globally.
According to the African Energy Chamber’s State of African Energy 2026 Outlook, African M&A activity in the coming year is set to be anchored by strategic realignments …
- AIM Congress’ first-ever international chapter in Shanghai, China marks a major expansion of AIM’s global presence.
- This milestone reinforces AIM’s mission to connect markets, promote innovation, and accelerate sustainable economic growth through international collaboration.
- AIM Congress China Chapter will host strategic partnerships and collaboration signings among major institutions, including the Beijing Chamber of International Commerce (BCIC).
The Annual Investment Meeting (AIM) Congress, the world’s leading platform for investment and economic cooperation, will host its first-ever international chapter in Shanghai, China, marking a major expansion of AIM’s global presence. This milestone reinforces AIM’s mission to connect markets, promote innovation, and accelerate sustainable economic growth through international collaboration.
Held under the theme “Deciphering the Intertwined Engines of Globalization: ‘From Going Out’ to ‘Going Up’,” the forum will explore how industries and economies can evolve through technology integration, sustainability, and investment-driven transformation.
The event will bring together 85 distinguished speakers in 15 …
- Tanzania tax compliance key to growing domestic revenue.
- TRA launches initiative to increase compliance.
- AI adoption poised to firm up tax compliance systems.
As the drive to increase revenue collections intensifies, tax authorities in Tanzania have been urged to embrace emerging technologies including Artificial Intelligence (AI), to enhance efficiency in sealing leaks and annihilating evaders.
For years, officers from the which Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) have battled tax evaders, individuals and businesses who keep under declaring their duty obligations while also bursting bold tax avoidance schemes involving cross-border businesses.
A recent report by advisory firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC), however, suggests that the use of AI and new technologies in the country can see players easily compute VAT, withholding tax, corporate income tax and other tax liabilities in almost no time.
“Technology is growing at its highest speed, revolutionising business models as well as the behaviours of today’s tech-savvy consumers,” reads …
- Ethiopian Airlines: “With forecasts projecting up to 60 million passengers annually by 2040, expanding Bole International Airport further is not feasible, making a new mega-hub airport essential.”
- Groundworks for Ethiopian Airlines new address, Bishoftu International Airport, are expected to start late 2025, with phase one set for completion by November 2029.
- The $10 billion project will include an airport city complete with shopping malls, hotels, recreation areas, as well as direct rail and expressway links to Addis Ababa.
Ethiopian Airlines ambition to turn into a global aviation giant has received a boost after authorities in the country entered into a deal with the African Development Bank (AfDB) to raise the billions required to build a new, modern airport.
AfDB has been contracted as the lead arranger, global coordinator and book runner to mobilize nearly $8 billion of the $10 billion needed to construct a new greenfield: Bishoftu International Airport (BIA).…
- EcoSecurities and the Energy Quest Foundation have partnered to accelerate electric mobility in sub-Saharan Africa, starting with Ghana.
- The collaboration focuses on climate advisory services, capacity building, and mobilizing investment to develop high-impact e-mobility projects, aiming to reduce the transport sector’s 346 million tonnes of annual CO₂ emissions.
- Initiative seeks to drive inclusive economic growth and decarbonize Africa’s rapidly urbanizing transport systems.
EcoSecurities, a global enterprise in climate solutions, has joined forces with the Energy Quest Foundation, a social impact organization championing clean energy and sustainable transport.
Their partnership is tailored to leverage carbon markets and climate finance to accelerate electric mobility (e-mobility) solutions across sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing initially on Ghana, this collaboration aims to transform the continent’s transport sector, which emits 346 million tonnes of CO₂ annually, by scaling up low-carbon infrastructure like electric buses, motorcycles, and charging networks.
EcoSecurities on tackling Africa’s emissions challenge
Africa’s transport sector …
- Deal aims to harness Tanzania’s vast uranium reserves as a driver for economic growth, industrial development, and future clean energy prospects.
- Project involves a 20-year plan to extract and process an estimated 300,000 tonnes of uranium.
- Construction is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2026, with commissioning scheduled for 2029.
Russia’s state-owned Rosatom has launched a $1.2 billion uranium extraction partnership with Tanzania, one of the East African nation’s most ambitious clean energy investments. The project aims to tap Tanzania’s vast uranium reserves to drive economic growth, industrial development, and clean energy prospects.
President Samia Suluhu Hassan presided over the inauguration of a $400 million uranium processing plant at the Mkuju River Project site last week, signalling the operational start of a broader 20-year plan to extract and process an estimated 300,000 tonnes of uranium.
“This project reflects Tanzania’s commitment to responsibly tap into its natural resources to …
- Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone (RAKEZ) records 43 percent increase in new companies.
- Economic zone offers 100 percent ownership to foreign companies.
- African companies encouraged to set up at the RAKEZ.
A new trading hub in the UAE dubbed Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone (RAKEZ), recorded a significant 43 percent increase in new company registrations for the first half of 2025 compared to the same period last year.
According to officials at the economic zone; “a total of 8,506 companies joined the RAKEZ business community between January and June this year, up from 5,933 in the first half of 2024, marking a significant leap in the economic zone’s continued growth trajectory.”
“RAKEZ’s remarkable success has been driven by our efforts to create a business-friendly environment tailored to firms from all over the world of every size and sector,” explains the CEO of Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone (RAKEZ) Ramy Jallad.…
- Africa’s automobile industry is growing at 7 per cent annually.
- Morocco overtakes South Africa as Africa largest automobile manufacturer.
- Volkswagen leads foreign investment in Africa automobile manufacturing investment.
The Africa automobile industry is growing rapidly driven by rising middle class income and demand for public transport (buses) also driven by growing working class population in urban centers.
According to a presentation at the World Economic Forum earlier this year, African researchers Signe and Muniyati, Africa’s automotive industry was valued at $30.44 billion in 2021 and is expected to reach $42.06 billion by 2027.
According to the research, the Africa automobile industry expansion represents a growth of nearly 40 per cent over six years.
“The continent sees an average annual demand for 2.4 million passenger cars and 300,000 commercial vehicles,” details the research paper.
The World Economic Forum was informed that; “this demand is currently met largely through imports of used …
